The fourth congress of KKE
[10th -15th December 1928]
The Fourth Congress of the Communist Party of Greece met in Athens on 10th -15th December 1928. It attempted to specify the Platform of the Communist International, voted in its 6th Congress, which, taking into account the different level of socio-economic development among the capitalist countries and their specific features, stressed the historically inevitable multi-formity of the courses and pace of the proletariat rising to power and the need in some countries «for particular transitional stages leading to the dictatorship of the proletariat» and the variation of forms in the established socialism in different countries».
The congress intended to define the nature of the revolution in Greece without concluding this task but leaving it for the 5th Congress. In the resolution on this question it mentions: «along with the program analysis we must raise the question of revolutionary democratic workers’ and farmers’ dictatorship as a transitional stage towards the proletariat dictatorship, as far as our country is concerned, leaving the definite answer to this question to the 5th Ordinary Congress».
The Congress, dealt in details with the need of assembling a united - pan-Hellenic congress of National Workers’ Federation, following the state intervention in May 1928 and the expulsion of 23 of its representatives, considered as communists, and de-registered 300 class oriented trade unions with 75.000 members, because they opposed class collaboration. In the resolution concerning trade unions the following was emphasised: «Immediate central duty of the party, at all its ranks, is the work for the assembling the united pan-Hellenic congress, the rallying of class forces in the trade unions, the re-establishment of the class oriented Trades and Labour Council for conducting the economic struggles of the working people».
The Fourth Congress of the Communist Party of Greece met in Athens on 10th -15th December 1928. It attempted to specify the Platform of the Communist International, voted in its 6th Congress, which, taking into account the different level of socio-economic development among the capitalist countries and their specific features, stressed the historically inevitable multi-formity of the courses and pace of the proletariat rising to power and the need in some countries «for particular transitional stages leading to the dictatorship of the proletariat» and the variation of forms in the established socialism in different countries».
The congress intended to define the nature of the revolution in Greece without concluding this task but leaving it for the 5th Congress. In the resolution on this question it mentions: «along with the program analysis we must raise the question of revolutionary democratic workers’ and farmers’ dictatorship as a transitional stage towards the proletariat dictatorship, as far as our country is concerned, leaving the definite answer to this question to the 5th Ordinary Congress».
The Congress, dealt in details with the need of assembling a united - pan-Hellenic congress of National Workers’ Federation, following the state intervention in May 1928 and the expulsion of 23 of its representatives, considered as communists, and de-registered 300 class oriented trade unions with 75.000 members, because they opposed class collaboration. In the resolution concerning trade unions the following was emphasised: «Immediate central duty of the party, at all its ranks, is the work for the assembling the united pan-Hellenic congress, the rallying of class forces in the trade unions, the re-establishment of the class oriented Trades and Labour Council for conducting the economic struggles of the working people».
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